As centres of innovation and growth, European cities are home to around 75 percent of the continent's population and use about 80 percent of the energy it produces.
"Because of the concentration of people and economic assets, towns and cities are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including impacts on health, infrastructure and quality of life, with the urban poor being the most affected segment of society," says Alessandra Sgobbi, policy officer at the Adaptation Unit of the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA).
Over the past three decades, Europe has seen a 60 percent increase in extreme weather events. One of the most stunning examples comes from Venice: There were 125 events in 2014, compared to only 35 in 1983 and 44 in 1993. Of these, seven were extreme in 2014, compared to only one in 1983.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-10-resilience-cities-extreme-weather.html#jCp
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